“You Will Bring the Truth into Your Kingdom…” The Image of the “True Christian Kingdom” in Russian Spiritual and Political Writings in the Middle of the 16th Century

2021 ◽  
pp. 123-156
Author(s):  
Sergey V. Perevezentsev
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
16Th Century ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
State Structure ◽  
Russian State ◽  
The World ◽  
End Of The World ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Eternal Salvation ◽  
The Ideal

The article examines the ideas of Russian spiritual and political thinkers of the 16th century about the “true Christian kingdom” under the conditions of expecting the imminent arrival of the Antichrist and the Second Coming of Christ. According to Russian spiritual and political figures of that time, the Russian state should fully comply with Christian notions about the ideal Christian state structure, and Russian rulers and ordinary residents should be filled with Christian piety. Only in that case, Russia could be ready to meet the “end of the world” with dignity, and its Orthodox inhabitants would be able to hope for “eternal salvation”. Therefore, throughout the 16th century in Russia, the search was constantly conducted for the most correct, from the Christian point of view, political and state structure, and domestic spiritual and political thinkers presented in their works various images of the ideal (“true”) Christian kingdom. It was important that the representatives of the interests of almost all social strata of contemporary Russian society (the peasantry, service people, boyars, the clergy) and even the tsar himself took part in those discussions.

“It’s the End of the World as We Know It”

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 553-576
Author(s):  
Matthias Hofferberth ◽  
Daniel Lambach
Keyword(s):  
Global Governance ◽  
World Politics ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Punk Rock ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
The World ◽  
New Energy ◽  
End Of The World

Abstract This article contends that practices of, and reflections on, global governance are diversifying without any particular teleology. Therefore, it proposes a “postgovernance” perspective to capture and make sense of the multiplicity of concurrent developments. Just like post-punk followed punk rock and provided new energy, postgovernance provides opportunities to revitalize debates on world politics. Postgovernance allows both scholars and practitioners to consider the persistence of “traditional” forms of global governance as well as the simultaneous emergence of new approaches. This article thus proposes postgovernance as a mode of world politics in a postparadigmatic world that is dynamic yet inconsistent. We advance this argument by outlining what postgovernance entails, by taking stock of current debates from a postgovernance perspective, and by discussing how these can be advanced from a postgovernance point of view.

The African Atlantic islands in maritime history during the Ancien Régime

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 634-648 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Manuel Santana-Pérez
Keyword(s):  
Cape Verde ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Maritime History ◽  
16Th Century ◽  
Middle Atlantic ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
Sao Tome And Principe ◽  
The World ◽  
World Economic ◽  
African Atlantic

This paper aims at describing and explaining certain common characteristics that have endured in the African Atlantic islands by virtue of the fact that these islands depend on centres of authority located at considerable distances away. Their location on linking routes to three continents led to the first globalization since the world economic shifts of the 16th century. The islands have sometimes been described metaphorically as a bridge, but we prefer to speak of maritime doors. These islands have been an entrance and exit for goods, people, culture, and ideas, opened or closed, depending on your point of view, through the modern age as European penetration spread. It includes the archipelagos of the Middle Atlantic, the cases of Madeira, the Canaries, Cape Verde, São Tomé, and Principe, and the Guinea Islands of Bioko, Corisco, and Annobon.

Psychological Features of Eschatological Expectations of Youth with Various Types of Creative Thinking

2018 ◽  
Vol 81 ◽  
pp. 22-29
Author(s):  
Svitlana Serdiuk ◽  
Dmytro Volkov
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Creative Thinking ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Verbal Creativity ◽  
The World ◽  
End Of The World ◽  
High Level ◽  
Psychological Features ◽  
Different Levels

This article highlights the results of the research on psychological features of eschatological expectations of young people with different levels of creative thinking. Our study shows that 26 % of respondents believe that the End of the World will not arrive. Twenty-four per cent of respondents are skeptical about the likelihood of the Apocalypse, but they admit its possibility. Thirty-seven per cent of respondents believe that the End of Time will not come soon and the remaining 13% expect the Apocalypse very soon. Some respondents (7.5%) indicate that growth in the rate of prophecies connected with the End of the World in recent years suggests that humanity itself seeks it, while 9 % of respondents state the religious point of view in their works. Also 9 % of respondents believe that there will be no destruction of civilization or destruction of the planet but there will be a mental transition to another level of being. The existence of correlation between creative thinking and eschatological expectations was also empirically established in our study, especially in the group of respondents with a high level of verbal creativity. There is no correlation between the index of non-verbal creativity, personal religiosity and eschatological expectations in the sample. These results confirm that our study is relevant and offers great prospects for further scientific research.

scholarly journals THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE IDEAL MALE BODY MASCULINITY IN THE MISTER INTERNATIONAL PAGEANT

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 4
Author(s):  
Muhammad Alhada Fuadilah Habib ◽  
Asik Putri Ayusari Ratnaningsih ◽  
Kanita Khoirun Nisa
Keyword(s):  
Human Sexuality ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Body ◽  
Great Power ◽  
One Dimension ◽  
Male Body ◽  
One Dimensional ◽  
The World ◽  
Traditional Masculinity ◽  
The Ideal

As Michael Foucault had said that the human body is not really free; the concept of the body as well as the concept of the human sexuality in fact are ruled by and obey the great power behind them. A great narrative about the body and also the sexuality that has been agreed by societies, consciously or unconsciously has successfully dictated societies’ point of view in placing their body and sexuality. The concept of a male body that has been characterized by its perfunctory appearance, in the sense of not necessary to primp, actually is a great narrative that is considered as a true necessity. This topic is unique and interesting to study because Mister International pageant as the representation of world’s male masculinity offers the different great narrative masculinity concept that has been shackling the traditional masculinity concept of Indonesian society. This study will analyze the signs of masculinity shown in Mister International pageant as the ideal men’s quest in the world. The result of this study indicates that the ideal male masculinity constructed in Mister International pageant if viewed from the concept of traditional sexuality is a combination between the concept of femininity and the concept of masculinity that then brought out to a new terminology about the concept of masculinity called as metrosexual. The concept of masculinity constructed by this ideal men’s quest in the world, if examined by Herbert Marcuse’s point of view, actually is a concept uniformity of the world's ideal male body in one dimension. Furthermore, the great narrative behind this uniformed ideal male construction is a world’s major capitalists’ project to expand their market share, especially male cosmetics and clothes products.Keywords: Construction, Masculinity, Ideal Male Body, One-Dimensional Man.

scholarly journals Vision of the Hoped-for Globalization

2002 ◽  
pp. 157-160
Author(s):  
Augustyn Marek Urban
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
The World ◽  
The Ideal

The author analyzes the issue raised in the title in a phylosophical context from the ontological point of view, which is a branch of phylosophy. As it is known, ontology is „the science of existence”, in other words, a science on the nature of every existing thing.The argumentations indicated by the title do not include „everything”, only those problems which are the most important in the author’s opinion. These are as follows:a) the aim of globalization, to which we refer to here as „hoped-for globalization”,b) the evaluation of the world in which we live,c) the reasons for the birth of the functioning world,d) the activities leading the world to the direction of the hoped-for globalization.The author is aware of his position’s deficiencies, but thinks that the importance of the topic makes it neccessary to create the ideal future’s vision through discussion.

scholarly journals The Economic Lever of Geopolitical Transformations

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 74-78
Author(s):  
N. N. Kulakova
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Political Event ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Political Events ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The World ◽  
Subjective Factor ◽  
Destructive Processes ◽  
Almost All

An analysis of the various aspects of one of the most significant disasters of the 20th century — the collapse of the USSR for many decades will be of interest to researchers of different scientific fields and schools. Representatives of almost all branches of humanitarian knowledge — historians, sociologists, political scientists, and merely indifferent people whose fate was directly affected by this epoch-making event, seek to comprehend the history of the death of the USSR, to understand the essence of destructive processes, to find answers to the question about the premises, causes, mechanisms and consequences of the collapse of the first socialist state in the world. By now, there are a large number of journalistic materials not burdened by the source research or analytical assessment. Scientific research, as a rule, belongs to the pen of historians, however, even here the analysis of the causes of the death of the largest state on the world stage is primarily affected by the subjective factor, ideological bias, and the involvement of the authors of the works in political events. In an attempt to answer the question, many contradictory theories have been put forward, including conspiracy theories explaining the “secret springs” of the death of the Soviet Union. However, such a multifaceted political event, caused by a wide range of reasons, which marked the beginning of a new round of Russian history and the foundation of our days, is practically not explored from the standpoint of economic analysis, competition, and the struggle for the sales market action. The author does not set as his task a comprehensive study of such a multifaceted problem — the problem of the death of the USSR. The article presents an attempt to identify the economic component and recall the tragic consequences of the death of the Soviet Union. The work substantiates the point of view according to which the problem of the dialectics of the collapse of a state of conscience needs a comprehensive, impartial and versatile study that can help find answers to today’s problematic questions.

scholarly journals Modern digital technologies in the professional-oriented multicultural education

2020 ◽  
Vol 87 ◽  
pp. 00106
Author(s):  
Alexander Kabanov ◽  
Nelly Savelyeva ◽  
Natalie Nevraeva ◽  
Elena Gnatyshina ◽  
Oksana Pinchukova
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Multicultural Education ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Common Language ◽  
Russian State ◽  
The World ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Almost All

In modern reality, when economic, trade, scientific and cultural ties are rapidly developing in the world, exchanges are being carried out in the scientific and technical fields, knowledge of a foreign language becomes a priority for specialists of almost all levels. The very concept of a “foreign language” is increasingly being replaced by a “language of communication” in various fields of culture, science and technology. There are many different languages in the world, and even more dialects. But the trends are such that for most people knowledge of one common language is enough. And this language does not have to be native to the interlocutors. A common language is able to unite different peoples and cultures, even absolutely opposite, into one common cause. In addition to strengthening cultural ties, the language brings together experts in science and technology. At the same time, the authors acknowledge the lack of research in modern pedagogical science devoted to identifying the potential of information and communication technologies in the process of professional foreign language training of future specialists that meet the requirements of the Russian state and society, imposed on modern specialists of different profiles, reflected in national and international documents.

scholarly journals Divine Evolution: Empedocles’ Anthropology

2021 ◽  
pp. 107-116
Author(s):  
A. V Halapsis
Keyword(s):  
Philosophical Anthropology ◽  
Ancient Greece ◽  
Fundamental Difference ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Objective Knowledge ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Consistent Model ◽  
The World ◽  
Correct Direction ◽  
The Ideal

Purpose. Reconstruction of Empedocles’ doctrine from the point of view of philosophical anthropology. Theoretical basis. Methodological basis of the article is the anthropological comprehending of Empedocles’ text fragments presented in the historical-philosophical context. Originality. Cognition of nature in Ancient Greece was far from the ideal of the objective knowledge formed in modern times, cognition of the world as it exists before man and independently of him. Whatever the ancient philosophers talked about, man was always in the center of their attention. I proposed an anthropological version of the interpretation of the doctrine of Empedocles, within the framework of which various elements of his concept fit into a consistent model. Conclusions. Empedocles’ anthropology is based on the recognition of several fundamental things. First of all, there is no death. Second, there is no fundamental difference between human and celestial. This line is conventional and under certain conditions one can overcome it. Cod can become a human (for example, for a deed unworthy of a deity), and a human can become God. Teaching of evolution is also double. Not only physical shell evolves, keeping only the most adapted species, but the soul too. The latter can both ascend to the gods and go down to the bushes and fish. Purification of the soul and mastering the magic of the elements gives an impetus for a correct direction of evolution. Empedocles is an anthropologist-practitioner, who shows by his example that a human can cope with all the elements and reach divinity. He chose (or convinced himself that he chose) the elemental ingredients for penetrating the Fortunate Isles, leaving the instructions on how to become God.

The Alternative Investment Market Italia listing process: A sustainable Alternative Investment Market for Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs)?

2021 ◽  
pp. 83-101
Author(s):  
Alberto Manelli ◽  
Roberta Pace ◽  
Jacopo Montecchiani ◽  
Lorenzo Viserta
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Share Price ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
Empirical Survey ◽  
The World ◽  
Price Trends ◽  
Small Medium Enterprises ◽  
Medium Enterprises ◽  
The Ideal ◽  
Alternative Investment

The present work aims to investigate the world of Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs), exploring in depth the implications related to the sustainability of the listing process in the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) Italia market in order to assess, adopting a critical approach, whether the path of listing could be the ideal choice to support a significant growth of these realities. An empirical survey is therefore presented in order to evaluate the sustainability of the listing process from both an economic- financial and Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) point of view. The conclusions reached highlight how the listing process hides pitfalls in terms of economic and financial performance; while the commitment to ESG factors seems rewarding both in terms of share price trends and debt cost.

Conceptual Features of a Complex Vision of the World

2021 ◽  
pp. 49-52
Author(s):  
Yakov I. Svirsky ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
Modern Natural ◽  
Modern Natural Science ◽  
The World ◽  
Static View ◽  
Almost All ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Genetic Principle ◽  
Processing Point

Today, almost all spheres of human existence are interpreted – directly or indi­rectly – as permanently becoming, interpreted from a processing point of view realities that do not imply either final fixation or predetermined ultimate goals or states. The world appears not so much in the form of difficult composite dy­namic formation in mechanistic sense, but in the form of mobile, continuously becoming environment, which presupposes special technical researches and ways of staying in it. Such techniques and methods lead to the formation of a non-trivial vision of the universe. And such a vision, aimed at comprehending of emerging realities, presupposing conceptual shifts in modern natural science, technology, humanitarian activity, and more broadly in the very perception of na­ture and society, V.I. Arshinov endows with the epithet “complexity”. In the pro­posed text, a small fragment from the creative heritage of one of the most influ­ential philosophers J. Simondon will be considered, allowing to partially reveal the features of such complexitly oriented thinking. The central theme of Simon­don's philosophical strategy is the conceptualization of how the becomings of beings are realized, or how beings (inanimate, living, technical, mental, social) are individuated. Simondon begins the discussion of this plot with criticism of the hylemorphic scheme, which posits the genetic principle of existence in the form-matter dichotomy and, above all, in the interpretation and theoretical use of such a dichotomy by Aristotle, since, according to Simondon, it was this pair that contributed to the formation of a static view on the world, man and society. In different performances, the form-matter dichotomy can be interpreted in the form of mind-body dichotomies, artificial-natural, living-nonliving, etc. Note that Simondon begins his criticism with the technological substantiation of the hylemorphic scheme, referring to the operation of making a parallelepiped brick from clay

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